11-99A-4
Section 11-99A-4 Establishment of districts. (a) One or more owners of land wishing to form
a district in a municipality or a county may petition the municipality or county to form a
district as follows: (1) The owners shall prepare a written petition executed by the owners
of all land proposed to be included within the district. (2) The petition shall include a
description of the tract or tracts of land proposed to be included within the district, which
may include less than all of any individual tract of land. The description shall be sufficient
if it refers to tax assessment tracts in accordance with the tax assessor's numbering or other
reference system, by metes and bounds, by subdivision lot, by reference to recorded deeds,
or by other reasonable reference method. (3) The petition shall include a map or plat of the
proposed district, showing that, if the district is created, (i) with respect to a petition
being submitted to a municipality, the land will be contiguous with land...
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45-49-140.01
Section 45-49-140.01 Establishment of districts. Any area situated entirely within the county
may be established as a district for fighting fires as provided herein. Provided, however,
no land lying within the boundaries of a municipality or an existing fire fighting and emergency
medical services district at the time of the election shall be included in a newly established
district. (Act 90-697, p. 1352, § 3.)...
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11-43A-9
Section 11-43A-9 Election of municipal officers; division of municipality into districts; qualifications
and eligibility of candidates; runoff election; term of office; exception for Class 6 cities.
(a) In all cities to which this section applies, except Class 6 cities wherein the municipal
governing body has elected to have a nine-member council, as authorized in Section 11-43A-8,
the election for the first officers of the municipality shall be held on the same date as
the date of election for the next ensuing general municipal election. Except as otherwise
provided for in Section 11-43A-1.1, the election of the governing body of the municipality
shall cause the municipality to be divided into three districts containing as nearly an equal
number of people as possible. Candidates shall qualify in the manner prescribed in the general
municipal election laws and shall have the qualifications and eligibility set forth therein.
Each candidate shall announce that he or she is to become a...
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11-50-404
Section 11-50-404 Transfer of systems to district by municipalities. Each municipality in Alabama
which now or hereafter owns a gas plant and system is hereby authorized to transfer and convey
all or any part of such plant and system or any rights incident thereto, without the necessity
of authorization at an election of the qualified voters of such municipality, to a gas district
incorporated as a public corporation under the provisions of this article, whether such municipality
is a member of the district or not. Any such transfer or conveyance may be made with or without
pecuniary consideration and on any such terms and conditions as the governing body of the
municipality owning such plant and system may determine. Any such transfer and conveyance
shall be made only upon the adoption by the governing body of the municipality owning such
plant and system of an ordinance or resolution authorizing such transfer and conveyance. (Acts
1953, No. 641, p. 900.)...
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11-50-414
Section 11-50-414 Validation of proceedings to incorporate gas districts. All acts or proceedings
heretofore done or taken for the purpose of incorporating any gas district under the provisions
of this article are hereby validated and declared legal, notwithstanding that the resolution
adopted by the governing body of any municipality which is a member of such gas district authorizing
its mayor to proceed with the organization and incorporation of such gas district in purported
compliance with Section 11-50-391 does not set forth a brief description of the gas system
or systems to be owned and operated by such gas district or fails to comply in other respects
with the provisions of said Section 11-50-391, notwithstanding failure to publish any resolution
and notwithstanding that the objects for which such gas district is organized as stated in
the certificate of incorporation of such gas district, filed in the office of the judge of
probate of the county in which the principal office...
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11-98-2
Section 11-98-2 Districts; creation; composition; powers and duties. The creating authority
may by ordinance or resolution, as may be appropriate, create within its respective jurisdiction
districts composed of the territory lying wholly within the municipality or of any part or
all of the territory lying wholly within the county. The districts shall be political and
legal subdivisions of the state, with power to sue and be sued in their corporate names and
to incur debt and issue bonds. The bonds shall be negotiable instruments and shall be solely
the obligations of the district and not the State of Alabama. The bonds and the income thereof
shall be exempt from all taxation in the State of Alabama. The bonds shall be payable out
of the income, revenues, and receipts of the district. The bonds shall be authorized and issued
by resolution or ordinance of the creating authority of the district and shall be of such
series, bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, not to...
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11-99B-1
Section 11-99B-1 Definitions. When used in this chapter the following words and phrases shall
have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) APPLICANT. A natural person who files a written application with the governing body of
any county or municipality or public corporation in accordance with the provisions of Section
11-99B-3. (2) AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION. A resolution, adopted by a governing body in accordance
with the provisions of Section 11-99B-3, that authorizes the incorporation of a district.
(3) AUTHORIZING SUBDIVISION. Any county or municipality or public corporation the governing
body of which shall have adopted an authorizing resolution. (4) BOARD. The board of directors
of a district. (5) BONDS. Bonds, notes, and certificates representing an obligation to pay
money. (6) COUNTY. Any county in the state. (7) DIRECTOR. A member of the board of directors
of the district. (8) DISTRICT. A public corporation organized pursuant to...
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23-4-2
Section 23-4-2 Procedure. (a) Whenever the governing body of a municipality or county proposes
to vacate a public street, alley, or highway, or portion thereof, the governing body shall
schedule a public hearing prior to taking final action and shall publish notice of the proposed
hearing on the vacation in a newspaper of general circulation in the portion of the county
where the street, alley, or highway lies once a week for four consecutive weeks in the county
prior to deciding the issue at a regularly scheduled meeting of the governing body. A copy
of the notice shall be posted on a bulletin board at the county courthouse and shall also
be served by U.S. mail at least 30 days prior to the scheduled meeting on any abutting owner
and on any entity known to have facilities or equipment such as utility lines, both aerial
or buried, within the public right-of-way of the street, alley, or highway to be vacated.
The notice shall describe the street, alley, highway, or portion thereof...
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9-8-24
Section 9-8-24 Supervisors. The governing body of the district shall consist of one supervisor
from each of the counties within the district, but in no event less than five, appointed as
provided in this article. The supervisors shall be persons who are by training and experience
qualified to perform the specialized skilled service which will be required of them in the
performance of their duties under this article. The supervisors shall designate a chairman
and may, from time to time, change such designation. Each supervisor shall be appointed for
a term of three years except that of those supervisors who are first appointed, two shall
be designated to serve for one year, two for two years and the remaining number for three
years: provided, that in existing districts such appointments for one, two and three year
terms will be made at the expiration of the terms of the present supervisors and thereafter
appointments will be made for the regular three-year term. A supervisor shall hold...
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11-105-4
Section 11-105-4 Board of directors. (a) The affairs of the authority shall be managed by a
board of directors, hereinafter called the board, which shall consist of the following: At
least one and not more than five board members representing each incorporated municipality
located within the defined tourism promotion and development district and not more than two
board members from any unincorporated area included in the tourism promotion and development
district, except that the number of board members from the unincorporated area of the tourism
development district may be increased to not more than four board members by a two-thirds
majority vote of the then existing board members of the authority. (b) The number of board
members representing each municipality included in the tourism promotion and development district
shall be computed as follows: (1) One board seat for each seventy thousand dollars ($70,000)
of annual lodging tax collections collected within the municipality. The...
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